This week David Byrne and Brian Eno released something for the first time in 30 years, the album is called “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today” and the last song posted “The River” is from it. I just picked it up online and pretty much made yesterday a whole day of Byrne + Eno and wanted to share a few tracks from The Catherine Wheel score. As for the new record, i found a lot more straight forward and vocal which is great but i personally wanted more rhythmic sounds accompanying each track since they are both genius in my opinion when it comes to percussion.

Brian Eno/David Byrne – Black Flag

Brian Eno/David Byrne – My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)

Brian Eno/David Byrne – Dinosaur

Brian Eno/David Byrne – Eggs In A Briar Patch

Brian Eno/David Byrne – The River

Also, If you haven’t seen this already, David Byrne made an organ that sits in the middle of an abandon building that triggers parts of the building to make a sound, it’s really interesting, sadly it’s not too far from me and all my trips and plans to make it out always fall thru, I might just go by myself.

Juan Marin says:

David Byrne’s organ reminds me of the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Luray Caverns in Virginia. It is the largest instrument in the world and it uses the stalactites to make the sounds. It’s fantastic but sadly you can’t just go play it like you could play David Byrne’s.

rafalski says:

I was always surprised with how people not realized what impact Eno had on U2. To me, he was a genius who found an instrument to play: a brilliant and presentable host band.
Take “Zooropa”, the album where Eno’s influence was so strong that the next record they released as “Passengers”, who were U2 and Brian Eno together. It wasn’t as good though, Eno is best when in the shadow and U2 in the limelight.

Zooropa’s “Numb” is so reminiscent of “Mea Culpa” from “Bush Of Ghosts”, that we once used to call Eno with my friends “a man who knows how to sell a song twice”.